Re: You saw the answer and chose to ignore it.
Unfortunatly most of the issues terrorists have are based in religious orign (IE their hatred of israel) While it seems like this is an impossible point of contention, since the terrorists want israel destroyed, there are ways around it.
Iran in the 1950's was in the midst of a secular uprising, a revolution on par with the secular movements in the western world that brought an end to monarchies and a rise to democracy. America swifty helped to crush this rebellion an reinstalled the shah. The shah then killed everyone who opposed him (the secular middle class. Finally he was over thrown by a fanatical sect of islam.
We could start combating terrorism by rebuliding themiddle east, not governmentally but economically. Almost every successful revolution in history has come from the middle class. Our middle eastern policies for the past few decades have been sacntions and isloation, both destroy the middle class and allow th eupper class to prosper while the people starve.
Rebulid the middle class, let them chose their own path and terrorism will fizzle out.
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